Re: invalid login gid in /etc/passwd does not show group name as 'mkgroup'

2008-10-14 Thread Herb Maeder
On 13 Oct 2008 17:54:36 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > But if it ends up sticking around, then it probably makes sense to account > > for the additional special case that was just introduced: > > > > passwd/group_GID_clash* ) > > echo "Your group is currently \"passwd/group_GID_clash\".

Re: invalid login gid in /etc/passwd does not show group name as 'mkgroup'

2008-10-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 11 00:21, Herb Maeder wrote: > Perhaps my intention was not clearly stated. I believe that a case > statement was added to /etc/profile long ago, specifically to warn users > that the group name was set to one of the cygwin special cases. I'm > referring to this statement in the cygwin de

Re: invalid login gid in /etc/passwd does not show group name as 'mkgroup'

2008-10-11 Thread Herb Maeder
On 10 Oct 2008 11:35:08 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > But I think that means that some of the information in the "Special values > > of user and group ids" section of the Cygwin User's Guide is out of date. > > > > Would it be appropriate to include some of the information from your > > descr

Re: invalid login gid in /etc/passwd does not show group name as 'mkgroup'

2008-10-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 9 17:35, Herb Maeder wrote: > On 09 Oct 2008 13:05:36 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Bingo. We now have two entries for Domain Users, one with gid 898 > > and one with 10513. > > Thanks for the explanation. The behavior makes sense to me now. > > But I think that means that so

Re: invalid login gid in /etc/passwd does not show group name as 'mkgroup'

2008-10-09 Thread Herb Maeder
On 09 Oct 2008 13:05:36 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Oct 7 11:22, Herb Maeder wrote: > > The "Special values of user and group ids" section of the Cygwin User's > > Guide (http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net.html#ntsec-ids) states: > > > >Also, since Cygwin release 1.3.20, if the curr

Re: invalid login gid in /etc/passwd does not show group name as 'mkgroup'

2008-10-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 9 13:10, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Oct 9 13:05, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > For instance, the gid of a file depends on the numbers. If the pgid is > > smaller than the real gid, files are owned by the faked pgid and vice > > versa. > > Scratch that. I confused myself while testing.

Re: invalid login gid in /etc/passwd does not show group name as 'mkgroup'

2008-10-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 9 13:05, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > For instance, the gid of a file depends on the numbers. If the pgid is > smaller than the real gid, files are owned by the faked pgid and vice > versa. Scratch that. I confused myself while testing. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Pleas

Re: invalid login gid in /etc/passwd does not show group name as 'mkgroup'

2008-10-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 7 11:22, Herb Maeder wrote: > The "Special values of user and group ids" section of the Cygwin User's > Guide (http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net.html#ntsec-ids) states: > >Also, since Cygwin release 1.3.20, if the current user is present in >/etc/passwd, but that user's login g

invalid login gid in /etc/passwd does not show group name as 'mkgroup'

2008-10-07 Thread Herb Maeder
The "Special values of user and group ids" section of the Cygwin User's Guide (http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net.html#ntsec-ids) states: Also, since Cygwin release 1.3.20, if the current user is present in /etc/passwd, but that user's login group is not present in /etc/group, the grou